Gary Reeder
joe, that is a rare one. We got all the parts of
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 13:52

the Medusa pistol from Phillips and Rogers when they decided to shut down. They required us to totally change the looks and name of the gun which we did and it became our original Skorpion. The gun was intended to shoot about 20 different rounds using a special cylinder with tiny little springs in it holding a rimless cartridge in the cylinder.

We started building them and got about 40 of them sold and out the door and then they started coming back in with problems. We were using the original Medusa parts and they were breaking, especially the little springs in the cylinder. I called Roger Hunziker of P&R and he said they had a fairly large percentage of their guns coming back with broken parts, mostly the little springs in the cylinder. We cancelled the contract and sent all the parts back to P&R. Everyone that bought one we bought or traded back with credit toward any of our other series. I pretty much lost my ass on that deal. There were 5 or 6 guns that the people decided to keep so those 5 or 6 are still out there somewhere and became a collector's item.

The problem was the gun was designed in 1983 and in 2010 or so the ammo was much hotter and the hotter ammo was snapping those little springs off in as little as 20 rounds. So the design was good back then but no good for the newer hotter ammo.

So, Joe, it you shoot it and the springs break, you are sorta in a bind. You will have to get with P&R in Texas to replace the springs as I sent all I had back to them.